Mouldings & Finishes
15 x 32mm flat poplar chevrons painted in Farrow & Ball colours. The bottom one is a 10 x 32mm custom tray frame sample painted using white earth pigment paint.
We specialise in natural wood moulding and carry profiles in oak, ash, cherry, poplar, beech, maple, obeche and pine in a range of profiles. We can also customise moulding in the studio - we often do this for our bespoke tray frames. Please note that we do not do spray painted finishes. Sprayed wood frames, as opposed to welded metal, have a tendency over time to crack along the mitre joint and can only be repaired by re-spraying. This is costly and time consuming, in contrast cracks and scuffs are easy to repair with hand painted frames. |
A selection of natural wood, stained and hand painted moulding chevron samples.
Painting frames for two antique Dutch tiles - see the finished frames by clicking on the image.
Poplar, obeche and pine are excellent for staining or painting. For our coloured painted frames we often use the range by Farrow & Ball. For solid white frames we favour the earth pigment paint made by Colourman which has a gesso like surface.
For a translucent white we stain maple, poplar or ash in white and then finish with lime wax. |
A William de Morgan framed tile.
The moulding is in 15 x 32mm poplar, hand finished and painted in Farrow & Ball Studio Green. The tile is mounted on pale grey conservation board with matching hand cut spacers. |
Map II, etching by Karen Colley.
Box framed in 13 x 37mm hand finished poplar. The wood was sanded, stained white and finished with liming wax. The print is float mounted and the glass is anti-reflective with a UV filter. |
